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Silence & the Machine

by Liam Salmon

Winner of the 5th Annual BSMT Dwellers Playwriting Competition

She is in every way indistinguishable from a human being. Skin stretched from a plastic polymer over metal bones, an artificial breathing cycle designed to simulate life, and a brain that reprograms itself forming its own synapses and neurological connections. All owned and patented by someone else. Anya is an android with perfect artificial intelligence, Robb is her creator and Eve will do whatever it takes. Together they will discover just how human Anya really is. Cut her and she’ll bleed, she’ll bruise even, but when the last drop runs dry…